【INSIDER】My family doesn’t use toilet paper for butt-cleaning anymore. We’ve switched to bidets, and we’re not going back.

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My family doesn't use toilet paper for butt-cleaning anymore. We've switched to bidets, and we're not going back.
During the toilet-paper shortage created by the pandemic, the author switched to using a bidet. Now, she's mostly given ...

幼少時に使わなかったから未だに使ってないんだよね…今の部屋にはついてるのに電源抜いてるくらい。紙の「拭けた感」がないのがねー。

significant

意味 〈物· 事が〉 (将来的に) 重要な, 重大な (意味を持つ)

Having a bidet cut the amount of money we spent on toilet paper, which was significant.

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postpartum

意味 産後の

Then I remembered that we got a bidet for my postpartum recovery.

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intimidated

意味 [通例 be ~]〈人が〉怖がっている, おびえている; 自信をなくしている.

We’d delayed installing the bidet because both my husband and I were a little intimidated by the process.

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Given that we couldn’t find toilet paper anywhere and it was obvious that the pandemic was here to stay, it was time.

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悲壮感w 確かにパンデミックの一時期トイレットペーパー買えなかったもんね。

straightforward

意味 〈物· 事などが〉わかりやすい, 単純 [簡単] な

Installing the bidet was pretty straightforward

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hook up

意味 (機器· 電線· 患者などを) <機器· ネット· 電源などへ/機器などから> つなぐ, 接続する <to, into/from>

People often assume that installing a bidet is complicated because you have to hook up the water tank to the seat.

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plop

意味 [~ A+[副]]A〈物〉をポトン [ポチャン] と落とす; A〈物〉をドンと置く (down)

You just plop the seat where the previous seat sat, hook the bidet to the water tank, and you’re done.

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intimidate

意味 〈人〉を怖がらせる, 臆病にする.

Learning to use a bidet was intimidating at first

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